{"id":66203,"date":"2025-05-21T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66203"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:30:05","slug":"66203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/21\/66203\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Hits VeryDarkMan with Legal Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Lagos High Court has dismissed the preliminary objection filed by social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, better known as VeryDarkMan, in the defamation suit brought against him by prominent lawyer Femi Falana and his son, rapper and activist Folarin Falana, popularly called Falz.<\/p>\n<p>Justice F. Azeez ruled on Monday that the objection lacked merit and ordered VeryDarkMan to pay \u20a6200,000 in legal costs-\u20a6100,000 each to the Falanas.<\/p>\n<p>The case stems from a viral video posted by the influencer on September 24, 2024, which the Falanas describe as defamatory and damaging to their reputation.<\/p>\n<p>They are demanding \u20a61 billion in damages and a perpetual injunction against future defamatory publications.<\/p>\n<p>Falz was present in court while VeryDarkMan was represented by counsel Marvin Omorogbe. The court has now directed the defendant to file his defense as proceedings continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A Lagos High Court has dismissed the preliminary objection filed by social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, better known as VeryDarkMan, in the defamation suit brought against him by prominent lawyer Femi Falana and his son, rapper and activist Folarin Falana, popularly called Falz. Justice F. Azeez ruled on Monday that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66207,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66203\/revisions\/66207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}